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"Vince Laurent" <vincelaurent@REMOVETHISsbcglobal.net> wrote in message 
news:7p82011a3jhh1ev2v456utq7ncq9kn4o3u@4ax.com...
>I moved our system to undo from rollback but I keep seeing messages
> from our monitoring software like the following.  Why are there
> rollback segements in the system tablespace? Why did I get a warning
> the other day that there was 1 offline, then the day after 2, now
> there is 3? Where are they coming from?  We are running Oracle 9.2.0.4
> on HPUX 11i
>
> Output :
>                    Report For Database
>                    Wed Feb  2 10:29:09 2005
>                    Metric RBSegmentStatus (0067 / 0068)
>
>                                                    SIZE   OPTIMAL
> HIGH     # OF     # OF     # OF    AVG SIZE
> NAME                           STATUS              IN MB     IN MB
> WATER(MB)  SHRINKS    WRAPS  EXTENDS ACTIVE EXTS
> ------------------------------ --------------- --------- ---------
> --------- -------- -------- -------- -----------
> _SYSSMU1$                      OFFLINE
> _SYSSMU12$                     OFFLINE
> _SYSSMU13$                     OFFLINE
> SYSTEM                         ONLINE               0.77
> 0.77        0        1        0        8192
> _SYSSMU2$                      ONLINE              60.12
> 196.12       99      953      580     1568928
> _SYSSMU3$                      ONLINE              80.12
> 278.12      122     1030      744     2738994
> _SYSSMU4$                      ONLINE              88.12
> 280.12      113      993      660     3003202
> _SYSSMU5$                      ONLINE              55.12
> 232.12      105     1093      589     1303087
> _SYSSMU6$                      ONLINE              63.12
> 300.12      125     1039      741     1215720
> _SYSSMU7$                      ONLINE              72.12
> 280.12      109      968      709     1500078
> _SYSSMU8$                      ONLINE              56.12
> 200.12       87      862      538     1311343
> _SYSSMU9$                      ONLINE             128.12
> 296.12      126     1068      768    13602862
> _SYSSMU10$                     ONLINE              55.12
> 288.12       95      867      598     1207489
> _SYSSMU11$                     ONLINE              64.12
> 224.12      103      991      686     3159643
>
> NAME:      Rollback segment name
> STATUS:    ONLINE, OFFLINE PENDING (going offline but some
> transactions are
>           pending), OFFLINE
> RSSIZE:    Size in MB of rollback segment
> HWMSIZE:   High-water mark of rollback segment size
> OPTSIZE:   Optimal size of rollback segment
> SHRINKS:   Number of times rollback segment shrank, eliminating
>           one or more additional extents each time
> WRAPS:     Number of times rollback segment wraps from one extent to
> another
> EXTENDS:   Number of times rollback segment was extended to have a new
> extent
> AVEACTIVE: Current average size of active extents, where "active"
> extents have uncommitted transaction data
>
>
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system rollback segment is always in the system tablespace

oracle constantly onlines and offlines rollback segments so its not a 
problem, you need to update your monitoring software to understand 9i 


